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Patricia BixbyDescription
Patricia was born in Woburn, MA in 1928. Her father was a mechanical engineer, and her mother was a housewife. An athletic child, she was always active playing tennis, roller skating, softball, and swimming. Art surrounded her as she grew up, but she only drew, never painted. “I looked at it in awe,” she recalls.
When she moved to San Francisco in 1969, she never expected to stay here." It was quite the opposite of Boston! A drastic difference,” she laughs. Patricia was very satisfied with her career as a Jungian psychotherapist, working directly with patients. “It’s a healing profession. And dreams are fascinating to me. I liked helping people become more self-aware through their dreams.” She enjoyed attending the theater and the ballet, continued to play tennis (until she was 65), and also took two years of figure drawing classes at City College of San Francisco.
Patricia, who recently had an exhibition at Heritage on the Marina, began painting after her retirement. She enjoys figurative work, portraits especially, and her favorite medium is charcoal, although she also likes working in oil and acrylic. “Be as creative as possible,” she says. “Make use of your talents.”
